Tacitus
Marries Julia Agricola Life & Career Praetor, Quindecemvir AD 88 Death After AD 117 Marries Julia Agricola ~AD 76-77 Born ~AD 55-57 Consul AD 97 Quaestor ~AD 79-81 Provincial Officer? AD 90-93 Proconsul in Asia AD 112-113
Tacitus’ Works Agricola (Agricola) Germania (Germany) Dialogus de Oratoribus (Dialogue on Oratory) Historiae (The Histories) Annales (The Annals)
Tacitus’ Writing Style Annalistic Brevity & Compression Epigrammatic Individualistic & Psychological Focus “sine ira et studio” (Ann. I.1.6)
Agricola: History or Biography? Based on your reading, do you agree with Tacitus that Agricola is a biography, or do you think it is more of a history? Why? Given the encomiastic nature of ancient biographies, how reliable do you believe the factual information Tacitus provides about Roman Britain is?